Greetings from Phillippines!

After 12 hours flight we arrived to Manila. The travel went quite quickly. We arrived to the hotel around 11 local time and learned that the rooms are ready around 14 o’clock. So no shower but we (Giselle from Brazil, Jaydip from India, Qiong from China, Robert from US, Alina from Russian, Guillermo from Spain and I) went for a lunch and look around.

After receiving the rooms a part of us hopped to taxi and went to see the city of Manila. There are not any signs of flows in the parts of Manila we visited...

Guillermo, Robert and Sunil in packing themselves to taxi

Local busses

The traffic in Manila is something you really cannot describe – you need to see it…. It seems that there are no traffic rules. People take driving in middle of lanes; fours car side by side on the road with three driving lines… But we did not see any traffic accidents!

Lot of trash in Manila bay - maybe because of flows?

In the evening we went to have a dinner with IBM Philippines Country Manager, Waya from ABV and Andrea from IBM Philippines. After that I finally had a chance to go to the shower and have a good night sleep! Weird how you can enough so much on such a small things ;)

On Sunday we flow from Manila to Bacolod. This seems to be very nice “small city”. Out hotel is very nice; rooms are just renovated (you can still smell the paint) & there is a wireless connection in the room! In the evening we packed into two taxis and headed to restaurant called “Chicken House”. We learned that there are actually two restaurants with the same name in Bacolod. The other taxi went to correct “Chicken House” and I, Duke, Robert and Guillermo to other. Bit funny but the food was very good also in this “wrong Chicken House Restaurant”.